just need a quick confirmation on my idiocy

kiyoshi said
Alright so I had it at an unconfirmed tdc, when I went to spin it, the #1 piston intake valve started to compress down/ open. Looking closer on the timing marks on the pulley itself, it listed "v8" for that set of marks that was being used, and was the only line marked white and the only line with the side touching the block. All the other timing lines were on the opposite side of the pulley, if that makes sense

I continued to spin the crank until back at tdc marking on the pulley again. Where I'm at, I have spun one full tdc from initially pictured where intake valve opened next, both valves currently seem closed, piston #1 is at top of travel, and again oil pump shaft appears to be indexed incorrectly

Is this correct? The fix would be to simply spun the oil pump shaft with the proper hex just a little further until the oil pump gear slot is properly aligned once installed?

Thank you again

-kiyoshi

The BEST way is to bump the engine and look for compression (with your finger) on no1 hole. If you have both valve covers off, examine both no1 and no6 valves and determine which pairs are closed. On a new engine with hydraulic lifters not yet fully pumped up, it can be tricky just looking at valves.

IF IF the drive tang is "where it belongs, the drive gear slot points to the driver side front manifold to head bolt. If the tang is different, you will either have to use a different cap tower for no1 or rotate the intermediate gear. You can walk it "up" out of the cam by twisting with a screwdriver